{"id":364087,"date":"2017-08-24T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9091ad5dfb6b4fee1d3933f982ea9582"},"modified":"2017-08-24T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:59:16","slug":"dna-detectives-crack-the-case-on-biothreat-look-alikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=364087","title":{"rendered":"DNA detectives crack the case on biothreat look-alikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biological &#8220;detectives&#8221; are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia (&#8220;rabbit fever&#8221;), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives. Sounding the alarm over a bioattack, only to find it&#8217;s a harmless relative in the same genus, reduces credibility and public trust. New work at Los Alamos National Laboratory is narrowing down the confusion over Francisella bacteria, a few species of which include highly virulent human and animal pathogens, fish pathogens, opportunistic human pathogens, tick endosymbionts, and free-living isolates inhabiting brackish water.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological &#8220;detectives&#8221; are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia (&#8220;rabbit fever&#8221;), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives. Sounding the alarm over a bioattack, only to find it&#8217;s a harmless relative in the same genus, reduces credibility and public trust. New work at Los Alamos National Laboratory is narrowing down the confusion over Francisella bacteria, a few species of which include highly virulent human and animal pathogens, fish pathogens, opportunistic human pathogens, tick endosymbionts, and free-living isolates inhabiting brackish water.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364088,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364087\/revisions\/364088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}